No More Ransom: The UK’s New Cybersecurity Rules Mark a Global Shift

The UK is moving to ban ransom payments for public sector and critical national infrastructure and to require mandatory reporting of ransomware incidents after a wave of attacks disrupted retail, healthcare, and legal services; the briefing outlines recent incidents, places the move in a global context, and urges resilience measures (MFA, offline immutable backups, security training, and incident response exercises).